Articles tagged "unrelated"

2018 American Transplant Congress
The Influence Factors of DCD Donors' Family Members' Willingness in Chinese Current Status (Hunan Province Experience)
B. Tu, C. Li, C. Li, S. Liu, Y. Zhao, X. She, Y. Ming.
Transplantation Center of the 3rd Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changssha, Hunan, China.
Background: Organ donation after citizen death (DCD) in China has developed gradually since the government promotes it powerfully from 2012, but the donation rate in…
2018 American Transplant Congress
The Altruistic Living Kidney Donor Phenotype – From Inquiry to Donation
V. Kumar, P. MacLennan, M. Bonventre, M. Hanaway, R. Reed, J. Locke.
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham.
BackgroundWe distinguish an altruistic donor from the traditional living donor when a living person's offer to donate an organ is to “anyone” and not attached…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Organ Procurement Organization Run Department of Motor Vehicle Office Leads to Increased Organ Donor Registry Enrollments
L. Dageforde,¹ W. Muren,² S-.H. Chang,¹ N. Vachharajani,¹ D. Brockmeier,² B. Anderson,¹ A. Khan,¹ J. Wellen,¹ S. Shenoy,¹ Y. Lin,¹ W. Chapman,¹ M. Doyle.¹
¹Washington University, St. Louis, St. Louis, MO; ²Mid-America Transplant Services, St. Louis, MO.
Background: 98% of people on the First Person Authorization (FPA) registry for organ donation enroll at a Department of Motor Vehicle (DMV) licensing office. Donor…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Waiting for the Optimal Donor for MCS Patients Awaiting Heart Transplant
J. Kobashigawa, J. Patel, E. Kransdorf, R. Levine, S. Dimbil, E. Passano, L. Czer, J. Moriguchi, F. Arabia.
Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles.
Purpose: Patients (pts) bridged with mechanical circulatory support (MCS) may require more optimal donors for best outcome compared to non-bridged transplant recipients. MCS pts have…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Shared Genetic Ancestry as a Predictor of Medium Term Renal Transplant Outcome in Deceased Donor Transplants
C. Stapleton,¹ On behalf of the UK and Ireland Renal Transplant Consortium, P. Conlon,² G. Cavalleri.¹
¹Department of Molecular and Cellular Therapeutics, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland; ²Department of Nephrology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
Sibling transplant pairs have better transplant outcomes than unrelated donor recipient (DR) pairs indicating that shared genetic ancestry between donors and recipients can aid in…
2018 American Transplant Congress
The First 9 Years of KPD through the National Kidney Registry: Characteristics of Donors and Recipients Compared to National Transplant Registries
S. Flechner,¹ A. Thomas,² M. Ronin,³ J. Veale,⁴ D. Leeser,⁵ S. Kapur,⁶ J. Piepert,⁴ D. Segev,² G. Hil,³ A. Waterman.⁴
¹Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; ²Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD; ³National Kidney Registry, Babylon, NY; ⁴UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; ⁵East Carolina, Greenville, NC; ⁶Cornell, New York, NY.
Purpose: The NKR is a voluntary network of 75 transplant centers in 28 States in the USA focused on the facilitation of live donor kidney…
2018 American Transplant Congress
HLA Typing, Panel Reactive Antibody and Donor Specific Antigen Tests Are Not Necessary for Successful Parathyroid Allotransplantation
E. Kanimdan,¹ B. Goncu,² Y. Gelmez,³ O. Idiz,⁴ C. Toka,⁵ B. Ozdemir,² H. Basoglu,⁶ N. Ozten Kandas,⁷ E. Yucesan,⁸ Y. Ersoy,⁵ R. Kazancioglu,⁹ E. Aysen.⁵
¹Bezmialem Vakif University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Biology, Istanbul, Turkey; ²Bezmialem Vakif University, Experimental Research Center, Istanbul, Turkey; ³Istanbul University, Aziz Sancar Institute of Experimental Medicine, Department of Immunology, Istanbul, Turkey; ⁴Istanbul Training and Research Hospital, Department of General Surgery, Istanbul, Turkey; ⁵Bezmialem Vakif University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of General Surgery, Istanbul, Turkey; ⁶Bezmialem Vakif University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biophysics, Istanbul, Turkey; ⁷Bezmialem Vakif University, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical Toxicology, Istanbul, Turkey; ⁸Bezmialem Vakif University, Institute of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Istanbul, Turkey; ⁹Bezmialem Vakif University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey.
Permanent hypoparathyroidism(PH) is incurable condition and requires life long drug therapy.Unique therapeutic option is parathyroid allotransplantation(PA).Some studies use routinely but emprically HLA typing,PRA(panel reactive antibody)…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Donor Derived Transmissions in 2016-2017: Analysis of the OPTN Ad Hoc Disease Transmission Advisory Committee (DTAC)
C. Wolfe, S. Tlusty, G. Vece, R. Bag, G. Berry, J. Bucio, L. Danziger-Isakov, D. Florescu, D. Goldberg, C. Ho, R. La Hoz, K. Lilly, M. Malinis, A. Mehta, M. Nalesnik, R. Sawyer, L. Strasfeld, P. Wood, N. Theodoropoulos, M. Michaels.
DTAC, United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, VA.
The DTAC evaluates unanticipated potential donor-derived transmission events (PDDTE), including mostly infections (I) & malignancies (M), to assess for likelihood of donor transmission. Reporting policy…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Self-Reported Post-Surgical Pain Following Living Kidney Donation
A. Fleishman,¹ J. Schold,² P. Morrissey,³ J. Whiting,⁴ J. Vella,⁴ L. Kayler,⁵ D. Katz,⁶ J. Jones,⁶ B. Kaplan,⁷ M. Pavlakis,¹ D. Mandelbrot,⁸ J. Rodrigue.¹
¹Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston; ²Cleveland Clinic, Boston; ³Rhode Island Hospital, Providence; ⁴Maine Medical Center, Portland; ⁵University of Buffalo, Buffalo; ⁶University of Iowa, Iowa City; ⁷May Clinic, Scottsdale; ⁸University of Wisconsin, Madison.
The Kidney Donor Outcomes Cohort (KDOC) is an NIH-funded observational cohort study evaluating outcomes in living kidney donors (LKDs) at 6 US centers. LKDs completed…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Antiviral Therapy for Donor-Derived Hepatitis C Virus Infection after Solid Organ Transplantation
A. Kwong,¹ A. Wall,² M. Melcher,² U. Wang,³ A. Ahmed,¹ K. Khush,³ A. Subramanian,³ J. Tan,³ P. Kwo.¹
¹Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA; ²Surgery, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA; ³Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA.
Background: In the context of organ shortage, the opioid epidemic, and the advent of effective direct-acting antiviral (DAA) therapy for hepatitis C virus (HCV), more…

1
2
3
…
10
Next Page »